Great point! They are certainly one of 2 I can think of. I think Duke was better defensively last year with Mark Williams, Banchero, Griffin, Keels, Moore and Roach, but they certainly are a better rebounding team with more length this year. Technically Mark and Wendell weren’t freshman, so in terms of freshman yeah you’re right. And I absolutely love Dereck Lively. He is nearly Mark Williams 2.0. But in terms of make up of teams with a lot of freshman I think last year they had NBA bodies in the post and our guards/forwards had more girth and physicality. Keels Moore and Griffin could really lock down better than the guards this year, (one reason why Scheyer doesn’t play Whitehead a lot) but it’s still close. We have more length this year but it’s covering space off of ball screens and cuts and this team shows signs of fatigue and loss of focus - meaning laziness off of screens and not hugging our defenders on the perimeter, also leading to turnovers offensively) which are big concerns when we play teams that are talented at scoring. Virginia can’t score and it played into our benefit, but you could see the full court pressure was difficult for Duke and there were times when Duke didn’t initiate an offense with 12 seconds left on the clock because our guards are too busy thinking about shaking off the defender instead of having our forwards alleviate the pressure to imitate the offense. The boys played great, but they will have to limit the turnovers (we gave way too many turnovers back to VA) and shoot better (than the VA game) in the NCAA tournament. If Duke can keep executing defensively and make shots on the perimeter, limit turnovers, they can give themselves a chance to make it to Houston. But we will see. Kyle is also playing at an elite level. Both Miami and Virginia had injury’s to strong post defenders. We will see if Kyle is legit in the next tournament. I love that he wasn’t turning the ball over and more controlled. You can see Ryan Young rub off on him offensively in the post. But again let’s see how he performs during the Madness.
@@taharkatuttuaten2117 this offense is far from elite. And you saw it against a good defensive VA team. Held us UNDER 60 points!!! With FT’s at the end to pad the score…. Was this fatigue??? Duke did shoot excellent the first 2 games. But given the sample size all year, Duke struggles to score against tough defenses (@ Miami they really played tough and we lose BADLY, both games against VA we have struggled to score and VA didn’t have Ben Vander Plas yesterday, the Kansas game, etc). I’ve been saying it all year….. 1) Defense 2) Turnovers 3) Perimeter shooting. We have done a great job at #1 and over the 8 game winning streak #1 & #2. The tournament except for last night #1 #2 & #3. And they looked Final 4 good!!! Unfortunately your only as good as your last game and we will be playing teams that are hungry with no fear of losing. If Duke can do 1-3 I’m not worried. But if they struggle in any of those 3 categories they will be very vulnerable.
@@Lets_go_Duke we don't win games with offense we win with defense, teams only avg 64 against duke. Defense wins championships, this is why Jon kick started the defense during off-season. Complete 180 from K, K's teams have elite offense by mid year but can't guard a picket fence. We will see
@@taharkatuttuaten2117 our defense was absolutely terrible until mid season though. You are right about K. He was soft on his post guys and gave up too many lay ups to prevent foul trouble and also because he would play an undersized guy at the stretch 4. But you have to keep in mind, when you get deeper in the tournament all teams start to play great defense and the separation is from whose better offensively.
This team is very dangerous!!!!!!!! The whole team is playing so well ,we are going g back to final four ! Let's go get our 6th !!!!!!!!!!!!🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
Great point and because of the success they achieved recruits will continue to believe they can shine and win at Duke. Seeing Carlos Boozer in the stands, I think he will be much more confident sending his kids to Duke after seeing their success this year.
Hats off to Jon and what a great job he has done!! I'm a Carolina fan and only can dream about a coach like this now!! Our coach SUCKS to the max and it will only go downhill for us because hubert has proven to be the worst choice that our AD could have made!! Has done nothing but destroy our team this season and I cannot stand him!! I never liked him as a player and like him even less as a head coach!! Why anyone would want to come here now is beyond me!!! At some point hubert's faults will be our down fall from grace and he will be removed but we are in for a couple of years of bottom of the barrel standings until the AD will admit the disgrace he has done to our basketball team and removes him from the coaching staff!! Just saying!! Have a great day!
I wish most of them would stay another year but coming from someone who played D1 ball and was not the smartest guy I hated school ! And if I wanted to continue to maintain my scholarship I had to put the time in books and it sucks ! That’s one of the reasons they leave
Agree, those duke final exams ain't no joke. Once there's a fire alarm got off while I was taking an exam, we all had to rush out of the classroom but still kept writing on concrete tables outside, in winter 🥶.
This is the best freshman Duke team defensively I’ve ever seen, we really have a chance to do some damage in the tournament. Let’s go Duke.
Great point! They are certainly one of 2 I can think of. I think Duke was better defensively last year with Mark Williams, Banchero, Griffin, Keels, Moore and Roach, but they certainly are a better rebounding team with more length this year. Technically Mark and Wendell weren’t freshman, so in terms of freshman yeah you’re right. And I absolutely love Dereck Lively. He is nearly Mark Williams 2.0. But in terms of make up of teams with a lot of freshman I think last year they had NBA bodies in the post and our guards/forwards had more girth and physicality. Keels Moore and Griffin could really lock down better than the guards this year, (one reason why Scheyer doesn’t play Whitehead a lot) but it’s still close. We have more length this year but it’s covering space off of ball screens and cuts and this team shows signs of fatigue and loss of focus - meaning laziness off of screens and not hugging our defenders on the perimeter, also leading to turnovers offensively) which are big concerns when we play teams that are talented at scoring. Virginia can’t score and it played into our benefit, but you could see the full court pressure was difficult for Duke and there were times when Duke didn’t initiate an offense with 12 seconds left on the clock because our guards are too busy thinking about shaking off the defender instead of having our forwards alleviate the pressure to imitate the offense. The boys played great, but they will have to limit the turnovers (we gave way too many turnovers back to VA) and shoot better (than the VA game) in the NCAA tournament. If Duke can keep executing defensively and make shots on the perimeter, limit turnovers, they can give themselves a chance to make it to Houston. But we will see. Kyle is also playing at an elite level. Both Miami and Virginia had injury’s to strong post defenders. We will see if Kyle is legit in the next tournament. I love that he wasn’t turning the ball over and more controlled. You can see Ryan Young rub off on him offensively in the post. But again let’s see how he performs during the Madness.
Do some damage? We got a chance to win the whole fkn thing! This defense is elite, final 4 caliber.
@@taharkatuttuaten2117 this offense is far from elite. And you saw it against a good defensive VA team. Held us UNDER 60 points!!! With FT’s at the end to pad the score….
Was this fatigue??? Duke did shoot excellent the first 2 games. But given the sample size all year, Duke struggles to score against tough defenses (@ Miami they really played tough and we lose BADLY, both games against VA we have struggled to score and VA didn’t have Ben Vander Plas yesterday, the Kansas game, etc).
I’ve been saying it all year…..
1) Defense
2) Turnovers
3) Perimeter shooting.
We have done a great job at #1 and over the 8 game winning streak #1 & #2. The tournament except for last night #1 #2 & #3. And they looked Final 4 good!!!
Unfortunately your only as good as your last game and we will be playing teams that are hungry with no fear of losing. If Duke can do 1-3 I’m not worried. But if they struggle in any of those 3 categories they will be very vulnerable.
@@Lets_go_Duke we don't win games with offense we win with defense, teams only avg 64 against duke. Defense wins championships, this is why Jon kick started the defense during off-season. Complete 180 from K, K's teams have elite offense by mid year but can't guard a picket fence. We will see
@@taharkatuttuaten2117 our defense was absolutely terrible until mid season though. You are right about K. He was soft on his post guys and gave up too many lay ups to prevent foul trouble and also because he would play an undersized guy at the stretch 4. But you have to keep in mind, when you get deeper in the tournament all teams start to play great defense and the separation is from whose better offensively.
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This team is very dangerous!!!!!!!! The whole team is playing so well ,we are going g back to final four ! Let's go get our 6th !!!!!!!!!!!!🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
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Roach is playing like a true Duke Senior leading I love it ...
This team has improved so much this year and they are fun to watch!
The scary thing is that Duke is still improving. They will be even better in the NCAAs.
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Great point and because of the success they achieved recruits will continue to believe they can shine and win at Duke. Seeing Carlos Boozer in the stands, I think he will be much more confident sending his kids to Duke after seeing their success this year.
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Hats off to Jon and what a great job he has done!! I'm a Carolina fan and only can dream about a coach like this now!! Our coach SUCKS to the max and it will only go downhill for us because hubert has proven to be the worst choice that our AD could have made!! Has done nothing but destroy our team this season and I cannot stand him!! I never liked him as a player and like him even less as a head coach!! Why anyone would want to come here now is beyond me!!! At some point hubert's faults will be our down fall from grace and he will be removed but we are in for a couple of years of bottom of the barrel standings until the AD will admit the disgrace he has done to our basketball team and removes him from the coaching staff!! Just saying!! Have a great day!
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I wish most of them would stay another year but coming from someone who played D1 ball and was not the smartest guy I hated school ! And if I wanted to continue to maintain my scholarship I had to put the time in books and it sucks ! That’s one of the reasons they leave
Agree, those duke final exams ain't no joke. Once there's a fire alarm got off while I was taking an exam, we all had to rush out of the classroom but still kept writing on concrete tables outside, in winter 🥶.
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